I
thought of an idea for this post quite some time ago. With Hillary Clinton’s
emails being so overblown, it made me wonder why we don’t hear that much about
all the other politicians that have some sort of email controversy. I gathered
as many as I knew about and will offer some other thoughts about the whole
thing as well.
Let’s
start with the initial person known with missing emails: George W Bush. We knew
about this all the way back in 2007 while he was still in office. If you
thought that Hillary’s thousands of missing emails were bad, imagine losing
millions. However, a key difference might be that his missing emails might be
more of a result of accident than intentional misconduct. Still, he lost way
more and might have prevented himself from being prosecuted further.
You
probably wouldn’t expect Donald Trump to have missing emails, but he does. I
wonder why so many conservatives still think that Hillary should have be sent
to jail, but they completely ignore (or maybe don’t know) about Trump’s missing
emails. While it is likely that whatever Hillary had done was a mistake, Trump’s
emails that went missing were intentionally destroyed by him or his officials,
possibly to hide his affair with a porn star or other things that have come to
light about him that people don’t care about.
Now
we get to Mike Pence. His might be more well known since his personal email account
was hacked. His problems came to light shortly after the 2016 election
happened. I don’t think that he was missing anything. But he used the wrong
address for official business.
Another
person worth mentioning is Mitt Romney and his missing emails. His weren’t that
big a deal at any time, it seems. It didn’t seem to affect him in his senate
election. Now you can read the link provided and let me know if you think it
should be more of a deal than it is.
The
only person that I wasn’t able to find a link to about in research for this
article was Pat McCrory. I know about him based on an article that ran in 2016 entitled
“Amid uproar, rivals for N.C. governor use private email” written by Emery P
Dalesio. A quote from this article says, “McCrory’s staff stopped in September
providing the private email records sought by the AP and wouldn’t respond when
asked about their progress.” I cut the article out of a newspaper when it ran
so there’s no link to share here about it.
Now
we get to Roy Cooper. In case you thought this blog post would only cover
Republicans, it only seems fair to point out that he and others in this article
are Democrats. But he doesn’t have any problems that we know of for sure. They
just think that something might have happened. He just might be a smart person
who avoids using email to avoid potential problems with it. Instead, people are
convinced that he is misusing what’s going on.
While
it might be hard in this post not to just include random examples of people
that might have just had some sort of email issue, Rahm Emanuel nonetheless
makes the list. He might be doing something shady with email or maybe is just
accused of something shady. Read this article and decide for yourself what to
think.
Jared
Kushner is a person in the Trump family who seems to have issues with email.
This is one of those cases where he clearly should have known better. You aren’t
supposed to use a private app for government business.
Next
is Ivanka Trump. She was doing more or less the same thing that Hillary Clinton
had done. Well, she didn’t delete or lose any emails. But she used a personal
account to send government emails on it seemed to me that people just shrugged
it off and didn’t care that much about the misuse that she was doing.
The
one person you’d least likely suspect of email mismanagement would be James
Comey who was investigating Hillary Clinton for that same thing. But here he
was, doing government business on a private email. He did the same thing that
she did, really.
One
of the most recent people that I know of with this problem was Betsy Devos. She
used her personal account to do government business. This happens a lot, it
seems. I might have an idea about how to change that in the future.
The
last person that I’m going to share is just a random one that I figure is worth
mentioning. One should not delete official government emails ever. But that is
what this guy did. If you want to read more about this random person, enjoy
this link.
There
could be more people than what we know that I found for this article. I thought
that I would tell you about all that I knew about and let you decide for
yourself what to think about them based on the links that I could provide.
Maybe you don’t care or maybe you didn’t know about all these people before.
Well, consider yourself informed.
Now
is there a solution to the email problem? I would argue that there is. Instead
of making all of the politicians stop using their personal accounts, they
should be monitored on all of the accounts that they use and keep using. Their
personal accounts should become as open as the government ones are to anyone
who needs to see what’s going on. As long as they know that this would be
expected of them to have all of their emails constantly tracked, you’d think
that they would be more careful with everything in the future and not have to
worry about this rule that no one cares about when it isn’t Hillary Clinton
facing it.
That’s
all for this post that I can think of for now. Maybe I’ll learn more later
about all of the people who have missing emails that I don’t know about just
yet. I would more than love to keep track of anyone and everyone who should
know better by now about how things work regarding emails in this country.
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